Amal Mattu, MD, FAAEM, FACEP, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, UMSOM has been recognized with the designation of Distinguished University Professor. This title is the highest appointment bestowed upon a faculty member at UMB. It is a recognition not ju...
In the latest CCPEM podcast, Dr. Winters, MD, MBA and colleagues discuss the recent PRIM-ER trial, which evaluated a primary palliative care education intervention for ED providers (MDs, NPs, RNs). They concluded that a multicomponent primary palliative care intervention did not reduce hospital adm...
The new episode of the Critical Care Perspectives in EM podcast features Professor and Vice Chair Mike Winters, MD, MBA and three EM specialists from academic medical centers in New Orleans, Philadelphia, and San Francisco discussing a recent publication in JAMA that evaluated a machine learning too...
Associate Professors Laura J. Bontempo, MD, MEd, and Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, are among the authors of “Is antibiotic prophylaxis necessary for anterior epistaxis with packing? Insights from a large database,” published ahead of print March 19 in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. The study an...
Assistant Professors Bennett Myers, MD and Alexis Salerno, MD authored “Mycotic aneurysm with abscess ?A pulsatile chest wall mass,” a case discussion with ultrasound videos, published in April in the Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2025 Apr;39:102240. doi.org/10.1016/j.visj.2025.102240.
Assistant Professors Jessica Downing MD, Daniel Haase MD, and Kevin Jones MD, Associate Professor Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, and colleagues from Shock Trauma authored “No Echo, no problem? Predictors of right heart strain among patients with pulmonary embolism,” published ahead of print on March 17 by th...
A lab test finding of Bandemia is a potential marker for severe infection. EM resident Matthew Jackson, MD, Assistant Professor Alexis Salerno, MD, and Professor Stephen Schenkel, MD, MPP, reported on a retrospective quality improvement study in “What happens to reporting when Bandemia becomes a cri...
Instructor Rohit Menon, MD, and colleagues in the UMSOM Division of Cardiovascular Medicine authored “Skyrocketing troponin after a motor vehicle crash: a traumatic dilemma,” a case report illustrated with angiograms and intravascular ultrasound images and videos, published February 4 in the Journal...
Assistant Professor Jessica Downing, MD, and Associate Professor Quincy Tran, MD, PhD, are among the authors of “Rurality and Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Mechanical Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke,” published in Critical Care Research and Practice. Analysis of 526 UMMC patients found that...
Professor Stephen Schenkel, MD, MPP, coauthored “Expanding Palliative Care Access ? Bridging Gaps in Diverse Clinical Settings” https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2829290 (doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.24947) an editorial published February 18 in JAMA to accompany a report published in ...